Sand baking is a soft, crumbly and melting in your mouth dough in various taste and color variations. You can certainly find at least 3-4 of its varieties in the window of any food store, and much more in large supermarkets.

However, all this can be prepared in your kitchen, having a small set of simple products. The process itself will bring you a lot of positive emotions and give confidence in the benefits of the prepared dish.

No chemical dyes, palm oil, thickeners or flavors. Only natural fresh homemade products.

Simple Shortcake Recipe

The most common and simple cookie that can be given even to infants can be prepared in a very short period of time.

To begin with, I want to note that all components must be at room temperature. This is the key to a good test, which will subsequently become shortbread.

In a glass for a blender, we interrupt the eggs and sand to the state of a homogeneous paste. To make the process faster, it is recommended to grind the sugar into powder beforehand.

Into the resulting mogul-mogul we introduce the oil, chopped into pieces. The mass will turn out quite thick. Pour the slightly crushed flour and baking powder of the dough. Knead and immerse the mass to cool.

Roll out a dough 3 centimeters thick on a flat surface. We punch through a glass with a glass. We spread on a greased baking sheet, crush with sugar.

We activate the function of baking for electric ovens and prepare our cookies for half an hour.

A simple recipe for homemade margarine shortbread cookies

A variant of the unsurpassed cookie that you can make at home, called the Millionaire. It can serve as a festive treat and make a worthy competition to a beautiful cake due to its taste and budget cost.

Components:

• Flour - 550 g;
• Powdered Sugar - 150 g;
• Chocolate bar - 1 pc.;
• Margarine - 250 g;
• Butter - 150 g;
• Condensed milk - 1 can;
• Sugar - 150 g.

We grind the flour on a smooth, dry surface, chop the softened margarine on top, chop the whole mass with a sharp knife into the flour crumbs.

Mix the eggs, add sugar and make a homogeneous mass. Immerse in a food bag and put it to cool for half an hour. In the iron pan we mix condensed milk, butter and icing sugar.

We put on the burner and, stirring occasionally, cook until caramel color.

We drown chocolate bar in the microwave. Hands evenly distribute the dough on the surface of the baking sheet covered with tracing paper.

Immerse in a preheated electric oven for 10 minutes. We remove, cool and pull on top the caramel, chocolate on it and place in the refrigerator.

A simple egg-free shortbread recipe at home

There are situations when you want sweets, and not all components are at hand. For such a case, an uncomplicated recipe for biscuits prepared with their own hands, with a minimum composition of products, is suitable.

Components:

• Flour - 600 g;
• Sugar - 200 g;
• Spread - 300 g;
• Nonfat milk - 150 ml;
• Soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Cinnamon - 1 pack;
• Black Chocolate - 400 g.
• Nuts - 200 g.

Heat the milk and the spread in the microwave so that the second component melts. Mix in the bulk soda and sugar (as an option - icing sugar). We attach the crushed flour.

When the mass becomes sufficiently tight, shift to a dry surface of the table. We break chocolate (it is better to use weight) into slices. Any available nuts are peeled and chopped lightly. Mix to the total mass of the dough. Immerse in a clean container, let cool.

We roll out the dough 2 centimeters thick, push it through with molds or with a faceted glass of the figure. We cover the baking sheet with parchment. We shift the semi-finished products. We put in a preheated electric oven to bake for half an hour.

This cookie can also be cooked in the microwave, only roll out the dough very thinly and put several in a dish. Turn on the appliance to the maximum and bake for half an hour.

In this recipe, it is not necessary to use only dark chocolate, it can be combined with other types, or take one according to your preferences.

Curd Shortbread Cookies

Baking with the use of dairy products is considered more crumbly and healthy. Such simple curd cookies are often prepared for children who do not like this product.

Components:

• Flour - 350 g;
• Homemade cottage cheese - 300 g;
• Margarine - 250 g;
• Homemade sour cream - 200 ml;
• Sugar - 50 g;
• Almonds - 50 g.

Pour the crushed flour into a deep glass bowl, then cut a fairly soft margarine with a knife. We chop the base with a knife.

Cottage cheese is passed through an electric meat grinder or sieve. Add to the flour mass along with sour cream. Add sugar and knead the dough well with your hand. Put in a disposable bag and cool for half an hour.

We divide almonds into halves. We take out the dough, roll it out, fold it on the principle of a sheet, and roll it out again, fold it. Cool. Using this technology, we perform actions four times. The principle will be puff-curd dough.

The last time we roll out, cut rhombuses with a pizza knife, put half of the almonds in the center and push it deeper. We shift to baking sheets and cook in the oven for 40 minutes.

Beer Shortbread Cookies

Beer-based recipes have been known for a very long time. However, many uninitiated are surprised that the baking is tender and melting in the mouth due to brewer's yeast.

Components:

• Flour - 450 g;
• Live beer - 0.5 L .;
• Sugar - 50 g;
• Soda - 1 tsp;
• Vinegar - 1 tbsp. l .;
• Creamy margarine - 150 g.

Combine the crushed flour with creamy margarine.

Carefully knead the mass with your hands until it becomes homogeneous. Pouring warm live beer and hydrated soda.

Light varieties are best suited so that there is no bitter aftertaste. What is sold in plastic bottles and has a long shelf life should not be taken, since there is probably no live yeast culture there.

Knead the dough: it should turn out quite tight and steep.

We roll, press through the pre-cooked molds, crush with sugar and spread on a baking sheet prepared in advance.

Immerse in the electric oven for half an hour.

Little utility

Shortbread cookies can also be baked with one whole cake, without first cutting the figures, but do it after. Only in this case, it is recommended to pierce the dough with a fork at random in several places so that carbon dioxide does not accumulate.

All products must be kneaded very quickly, and then be sure to cool the dough. Bake products in a temperature range of 170 - 190 ° С, at a higher temperature - cookies will subsequently crumble too much. You can think of any shape and then fill it with filling (both sweet and meat, at your discretion), for example, baskets.

Bon Appetit!

Products:

• Butter - 200 gr.
• Sugar - 200 gr.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Vanillin - 2 gr.
• Soda - 1 tsp
• Flour - 2.5 cups

People are such creatures who love to eat delicious food, despite the product’s non-usefulness, sometimes you really want something sweet. So sometimes we really want just a crispy, sweet shortbread cookie, the recipe of which I share in this article. There is one caveat in this recipe: it is better for children to cook shortbread cookies in butter rather than margarine.

It is still better for children under 3 years old to cook more dietary cookies, for example, and when they grow up you can sometimes indulge in shortbread.

Shortcrust pastry recipe for cookies:

Shortbread dough is easy enough to prepare. But to make it perfect, you need to know some secrets. In this article I will write how to make a sweet shortcrust pastry, from which it will be possible to create classic figured cookies, and tartlets, and tart, and baskets. Such a dough can be prepared for future use and stored in a freezer for up to 3 months.

In addition to the recipe for the test itself, I will write how to bake delicious ginger cookies, tangerine tart, classic shortbread cookies from this test.

This dough is perfect. The shortbread dough itself should resemble wet sand in its structure; in finished form, it turns out crispy and crumbly. From this test you can make cookies, tarts and tartlets, tartlets for cakes, as well as cake cakes.

In this recipe I will show how to knead the dough correctly so that it rolls well and does not break after baking. And also I will share the secrets of making shortcrust pastry.

Ingredients:

• cold butter - 300 gr.
• icing sugar or sugar - 150 gr. (4 tablespoons with top)
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• sour cream - 1 tablespoon
• salt - 1 pinch
• low gluten flour - 600 gr.

Step by step preparation of shortcrust pastry.

Secret number 1.   Butter should be cold. It is from this oil that the loose structure of the dough will be obtained. Do not remove the oil from the refrigerator in advance to make it soft. And especially do not drown it. Melted butter will not make a good shortcrust pastry with the desired texture. It will be sticky and viscous.

1. Grate cold oil on a grater. Do this quickly so that the oil does not have time to warm up from the warmth of your hands. Otherwise, it will be difficult to rub it, it will float.

1. Add powdered sugar to the grated butter. You can put sugar, but the powder is better rubbed with cold butter, there will be no grains. Mash butter with powdered sugar with a fork. Also do this quickly so that the oil does not melt.

Secret number 2.   Powdered sugar should be exactly 2 times less than butter. A lot of sugar will make the dough crumbly, and cookies are not so crispy.

1. Beat eggs into the dough. First beat one egg, stir, then beat the next.

Secret number 3.   Put in the dough 1 tbsp. sour cream. It will make the dough more elastic, it will not crumble. But excess sour cream will also harm: the dough will float and lose its necessary consistency.

1. After eggs, put 1 tbsp. sour cream and mix with a fork as well.

Put a pinch of salt, mix quickly. Very little salt is put in all the sweet pastries, because it better reveals the taste of sugar and gives a new taste.

Secret number 4.   Shortcrust pastry needs low-gluten flour (less than 20%). Such flour is made from soft wheat varieties. If you do not have such flour, then use this advice. Take a glass of ordinary flour, pour 2 tbsp. flour, put 2 tbsp instead. starch. You get a low gluten mixture.

1. On 300 gr. oil should be put 600 gr. flour, that is, a proportion of 1: 2. If there is too much flour, the dough will turn out solid, it will not work out to mold the necessary product. Sift the flour and add to the oil base, mix quickly. When the dough becomes already like crumbs, knead it with your hands, but not for long, otherwise the cookie will not be so crispy. The finished dough is quite tight.

In a cookie dough, put 1 tsp. baking powder, do not need to put it in the dough for tart.

1. Wrap the dough in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to cool (it can also be for 2 hours). Immediately, the dough will not work out, dry and wet ingredients must react, then the dough will be elastic and supple.

How to make various pastries from shortcrust pastry.

The process of making a dough of 300 g was described above. oils. For this amount of oil you need to take 600 gr. flour. I’ll divide this oil base into 3 equal parts (100 g. Of oil). Get 200 gr for each part. flour. From the first part we will make classic cookies from shortcrust pastry, from the second part - tangerine tart, from the third - ginger cookies with chocolate.

You can make raw dough in advance and freeze it in the freezer. There it can be stored for several months.

Making gingerbread cookies from shortcrust pastry.

Additional ingredients:

• ground ginger - 1 tbsp. without slide
• baking powder dough - 1 tsp without slide
• nuts and chocolate for decoration

As you can see, the additional ingredients are dry, so they must first be mixed with flour, and then combined with the oil base. So, in 200 gr. flour (per 100 g. oil) add 1 tbsp. ground ginger and 1 tsp baking powder, mix. 200 gr. flour is 6 tbsp. with a slide. Also optionally add vanilla or vanillin.

For this baking, it is better to take a baking powder, rather than soda, because soda acts immediately, and the baking powder gradually, in the baking process. Since our dough will still be cooling, an instant reaction is not needed.

Mix the dry mixture with the butter, knead the dough, just do not need to knead the short dough for a long time. Wrap in a film so that the dough is not weathered, and put in the refrigerator (from 30 minutes to 2 hours).

After half an hour, take out the dough, roll it on parchment about 5 mm thick. Cut the desired shapes with molds and bake on parchment at 200 degrees 15 minutes.

If desired, cookies can be decorated with chocolate and nuts. To do this, take any nuts and chop them (you can do this with a rolling pin). Take any chocolate, but not porous. Melt it in a water bath, look do not overheat, otherwise it will delaminate.

When the finished cookie cools slightly, dip half of it in chocolate and then nuts. Fold on the parchment and leave the chocolate to solidify.

Ready liver is very aromatic and tasty.

Mandarin tart.

Additional ingredients:

• eggs - 4 pcs.
• starch - 40 gr. (2 tablespoons)
• tangerines - 4-8 pcs.
• lemon - 1 pc.
• sugar - 150 gr. (8 tbsp)
• butter
• almond flakes - for decoration
• icing sugar - for decoration

Of tangerines and lemon you will need zest - 1 tbsp. and juice - 250 ml

In a meat base with 100 gr. oil add 200 gr. sifted flour. You do not need to put baking powder in this baking, as in cookies. Mash the base with flour until crumbs, then quickly knead the dough for 1 minute. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least half an hour.

While the dough is cooling, you can prepare the cream.

Stir the eggs with a whisk until smooth.

Tangerines and lemon need to pour boiling water for a few seconds. Next, remove the fruits from the water and wipe them with napkins. The next step is to grate the zest of tangerines and lemon on the smallest grater. Rub, turning the fruit in a circle. Make sure that the white part is not erased, only the orange is needed for the zest, otherwise the filling will be bitter. Just need 1 tbsp. zest.

Optionally, citrus zest can be replaced with finely chopped candied fruits. Or not to use it at all. You can also put the zest in the dough, and not in the cream.

From fruits without zest you need to squeeze the juice. Do this in any way, the main thing is that seeds and pulp do not get into the juice. You can chop the pulp (remove the seeds in advance) in a blender, and then squeeze through a cheesecloth or sieve. Or squeeze the juice through a sieve, using a fork. For cream, you need 250 ml of juice.

Combine the juice and citrus zest in one bowl. Add sugar to them, mix. Next, pour in the mixed eggs, also bring to a homogeneous state. You don’t need to beat for a long time, just put everything together.

So that the cream does not burn, it must be brewed in a water bath. To do this, boil water in a pan. Put cream on top of boiling water in a bowl or pan. Cook, stirring, so that the eggs do not curl until the foam is gone and the cream begins to thicken a little.

When all the foam has gone, put the butter in the cream, melt it.

Dissolve starch in cold water to a homogeneous slurry (take 2 tablespoons of water for 2 tablespoons of starch). Add starch to the cream and mix. Heat the cream until thickened for a few more minutes. After that, set it aside to cool.

Never throw dry starch to thicken anything. Be sure to breed it in cold water.

When the dough has cooled, remove it from the refrigerator. Take a shape with high sides. The dough for tart need to be rolled thinly, about 2-3 mm thick. There are two ways to create a pie:

1. Place the mold on the parchment, cut a circle with a knife along the bottom of the mold. Put the dough on this parchment circle and roll it thinly over this blank. Place the rolled dough with parchment in a mold. Hand knead the dough, making the sides. It is not necessary to lubricate the mold additionally, the dough is greasy and will not burn.
2. Roll the dough thinly, with a diameter larger than the bottom of the mold. Using a rolling pin, transfer the dough into a mold, lay it and with a knife cut off the excess dough that hangs from the edges, form the sides.

So that the dough does not rise during baking, it must be weighted. Professional chefs use special pebbles for this. At home, you can take beans or other dry cereals (peas, buckwheat, rice).

Cover the tart with parchment completely (the sides should also be covered) and pour the beans into the mold, about 500 g.

In a preheated oven to 200 degrees, set the tart to bake for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the edge of the tart will become rosy. Remove the form, remove the parchment with beans and send the cake to bake for another 5 minutes. After that, let the cake cool in shape.

When the tart has cooled, remove it from the mold. To do this, gently flip the mold so as not to break the pastries. Fill the tart with cream. Put in the refrigerator for half an hour to completely freeze the cream.

When the cream hardens, garnish the tarte with almond flakes and powdered sugar.

Gently cut the tart and enjoy the exquisite taste!

Classic shortcrust pastry cookies (white and chocolate).

Additional ingredients:

• baking powder - 1 tsp
• cocoa - 1 tablespoon

To make two types of classic cookies, we divide the butter base from 100 gr. oil for 2 more parts. In the first part, put flour (100 gr. To 50 gr. Butter) and a baking powder - 0.5 tsp.

The second part also needs flour and baking powder, but also cocoa. Cocoa is not placed additionally, but replaces one spoonful of flour. That is, put flour on 1 tbsp. less (only 2 tablespoons) and 1 tablespoon cocoa. All dry ingredients must be sieved to enrich them with oxygen. Mix first the flour, cocoa and baking powder separately, then add this dry mixture to the oil base.

Knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator, do not forget to wrap it in film.

When the dough rests, you can roll it out, about 5 mm thick and cut out cookie cutters.

In order not to clog the dough with flour, roll it between two pieces of parchment paper. It’s also good to use a cold board (also put it in the refrigerator with the dough) and a cold rolling pin.

Cover the baking sheet with parchment, you do not need to grease it with oil, since the cookies are rather greasy. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Sprinkle cookies with sugar and bake for 15 minutes until browned.

Let the cookies cool on a baking sheet. The taste of this cookie is well revealed with milk.

Make shortcrust pastry according to this recipe and you will get a masterpiece! Write in the comments what kind of baking you got. I wish everything was delicious!

Crumbly cookies are the perfect treat for tea, which melts in your mouth. Treat yourself to a treat in one of 10 recipes.

• 150 g of softened butter (room temperature)
• 80 g icing sugar
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of starch
• 50 ml odorless vegetable oil
• 300-350 g of wheat flour (or how much dough will take)

Beat softened butter with powdered sugar and vegetable oil.

Pour the starch and beat again with a mixer until smooth.

Now add about a glass of flour, mix, then gradually the second glass - mix again, and if necessary, add more flour. Here, the main thing is not to overdo it, the dough should turn out soft and crumbly, but it should gather in a lump.

Cut it into three parts and roll each sausage. Cut each sausage with washers 1.5 cm thick.

Place the washers on a baking sheet.

Bake shortbread cookies at a temperature of 160 degrees in a preheated oven, 30-40 minutes before browning.

When the cookies have cooled slightly, sprinkle with icing sugar, as it is not very sweet.

Recipe 2: crumbly cookies (step by step photos)

• wheat flour - 200 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• granulated sugar - 100 g;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• powdered sugar for sprinkling;
• vanillin to taste.

Open one hard-boiled egg, for this put the egg in a bucket of cold water, put it on the fire and after boiling, cook the egg for at least 10 minutes.

Cool with cold water. Peel the egg, separate the yolk, and remove the protein in cooking cookies do not need it.

Put the yolk in a deep cup, mash it with a fork, add two more raw yolks.

Put the softened butter to the eggs, sugar, mix.

Sift flour to this mass.

Knead the dough, it should turn out dense and soft, does not stick to your hands.

Divide the dough into equal pieces, roll the balls out of them.

Shake the protein in a bowl. Pour powdered sugar or sugar onto a flat plate. Dip each ball of dough first in protein, and then roll in icing sugar (sugar).

Place cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Put cookies to bake for about 20-30 minutes. It all depends on your oven.

Ready-made friable shortbread cookies are best stored in a plastic bag, it remains so friable for longer.

Recipe 3: Loose Mayonnaise Cookies

• margarine - 90 gr
• mayonnaise - 90 gr
• sugar - 100 gr
• wheat flour - 1.5 cups
• vanilla sugar, salt
• baking powder - ½ tsp

Knead the dough in the following sequence, it is better to use a bowl of a mixer to prepare shortcrust pastry. Cut the cream margarine into slices before adding them to the bowl. Immediately add granulated sugar to the margarine. Turn on the mixer to mix these products. Then add a pinch of salt and vanilla sugar. Mix again. Next, place the mayonnaise in the bowl and turn on the mixer again. It remains only to introduce the baking powder and portions of flour. When you substitute the dough, you need to shift it into a plastic wrap and keep it in the cold for 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough into a layer.

We cut out cookies with cookie cutters or a regular glass (glass).

Place cookies on a baking sheet to bake at 190 degrees in the oven.

Bake cookies for 15-17 minutes. Turn on the oven in advance. Delicious crumbly cookies on mayonnaise are ready.

Recipe 4: Loose Soft Kefir Cookies

• 2 cups of wheat flour;
• 120 gr. Kefir (1% fat);
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 130 gr Melted butter or margarine;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp salts;
• 1 tsp baking powder (baking powder);
• If desired, add: vanillin, cinnamon and toppings.

In a deep, voluminous bowl, break the chicken eggs, measure the sugar and baking powder, also for the aroma we added 1 tsp. cinnamon and a bag of vanillin.

Beat the ingredients slightly until a light foam forms, and then pour in kefir at room temperature. Important: sugar must be completely dissolved.

Melt the butter and pour it into our mixture. Do not overheat the oil: it is impossible that it begins to boil. Otherwise, cookies will fail.

To make the cookies more airy, the flour must be sifted with a sieve.

Gently add the sifted flour into the dough in parts: make sure that there are no lumps and knead the dough.

Since melted butter is part of our dough, you need to put it in a bag and in the refrigerator. At this point, the dough should be slightly sticky, but not sticky.

The dough should lie in a cold place for about 15-20 minutes. Then we get it and roll it into layers. To achieve a crispy but soft shortcake with kefir, make cookies about 1 cm thick.

We spread the cookies on a baking sheet, oiled and sprinkled with wheat flour. On top, we laid out a small amount of sunflower seeds to give the homemade liver an extra flavor.

Put the cookies in a preheated oven (180 degrees C) and bake until golden brown.

The soft shortbread cookies on kefir are ready. It turned out perfect: the cookies are soft and crumbly.

Recipe 5: Loose Margarine Cookies

• Baking margarine - 150 grams;
• Sugar - 150 grams;
• Wheat flour - 350 grams;
• 1 egg
• A teaspoon of soda.

Melt the margarine in a water bath, microwave, or over very low heat. To make it faster, take a soft margarine and cut it into cubes.

When the margarine is the right consistency, pour to it all the declared norm of granulated sugar. Mix the ingredients thoroughly. Do this with a regular fork or hand whisk.

The result was an oily sweet mass. Break one chicken egg into it. Mix food thoroughly in a bowl again.

Start sifting wheat flour into the resulting mixture. Do not ignore the sifting process, since the flour will be saturated with oxygen, the taste of shortbread from this will only improve. Enter the flour in parts, stirring immediately.

Fill the soda with acetic acid and add to the dough with flour.

When you knead the dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in a film and send it to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Roll the chilled dough on a powder-coated surface into a layer about a centimeter thick. Cut cookies using special cookie cutters or a glass.

Cover the pan with parchment paper. Lay out the cookie dough pieces. Parchment does not need to be greased with anything, cookies on margarine will not stick.

Bake shortbread cookies for no more than 15 minutes at an oven temperature of 180 degrees.

Homemade crumbly shortbread cookies on margarine are ready! Have a nice tea party!

Recipe 6: delicate crumbly cookies (step by step with photo)

• 180g butter
• 330g flour
• 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
• 60ml orange juice
• 115g sugar
• 1 tsp with baking powder slide
• ½ tsp soda

Beat soft butter with sugar.

Add the egg, baking soda and baking powder. Whisk.

Pour juice.

And pour the remaining flour. Mix everything thoroughly.

The dough is thick, homogeneous, but not cool. At first glance, it seems that it is sticky and something impossible to create from it.

Getting to the formation of cookies. To do this, pluck a small piece the size of a walnut.

Sprinkle the working surface with flour. Roll out the "sausage" from the dough about 15 cm long and 1 cm thick.

We turn it into a circle, pinch the ends and put it on a baking sheet lined with parchment or silicone rug. It’s more convenient for me to put the “sausage” on the baking sheet and give it shape there already.

You can make "bagels" and "hearts".

Grease them with yolk mixed with two tsp. water.

We bake our cookies until golden brown. Depending on how long you hold in the oven - the cookies will either be soft, crumbly, or will become brittle and crunchy. And that, and that option is good in its own way. Bon Appetit!

Recipe 7: Delicious Loose Oatmeal Cookies

• dark raisins - 150 gr
• margarine - 225 gr
• oatmeal - 300 gr
• vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
• soda - 1 tsp
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
• wheat flour - 210 gr
• sugar - 150 gr
• brown sugar - 190 gr
• salt - 5 g

Recipe 8: lean loose cookies (step by step with photo)

• Flour - 1 Glass
• Sugar - 50 grams (+ a couple of teaspoons of brown sugar, if any)
• Vegetable fat - 150 grams (you can use vegetable oil)
• Salt - 1 Pinch
• Baking powder - 1 pinch
• Molasses - 2 Tbsp. spoons
• Spices - 1 teaspoon (cardamom, vanilla, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, etc.)

Baking made from shortcrust pastry comes out very tasty, airy, melting in your mouth. Cookies get their friability due to the large amount of fat in the recipe. The dish has a high calorie content, but for those who are not used to counting calories, sand products are a real pleasure.

How to make shortcrust pastry

Delicious crumbly homemade cakes can take various forms and be supplemented with any additives - chocolate, raisins, dried fruits, nuts - depending on the personal preferences of the cook. The store shelves are filled with different types of cookies, but even the most delicious type of factory baking does not compare to taste with a home-cooked dish. The recipe is very simple, but inexperienced housewives may have difficulty kneading the base for the cookies. How to make a delicious shortcrust pastry? To do this, you should know certain tricks of cooking.

How to knead shortbread dough

1. All components used must be refrigerated. At the same time, the kitchen also should not be preheated (do not turn on the oven in advance).
2. The more fat (margarine or butter) in the composition, the more crumbly the cookies will turn out. In oil, the dish will be tastier, but not so fragile, so experienced chefs advise mixing both components 1: 1. It is important to use exclusively high-quality products, since they affect the taste of the finished product. If little fat is added, the dish will turn out solid and dense.
3. Cookies will be more tender if sugar is replaced with powdered sugar.
4. Feel free to add any spices to your cookies - the dish perfectly absorbs aromas.
5. If the recipe suggests the presence of eggs, it is better to limit yourself to only yolks, since proteins can make baking stiffer.
6. It is important to knead the dough quickly so that the butter / margarine does not have time to melt.
7. It is recommended to take very cold water for mixing.
8. Ideal shortbread flour - low in gluten. If you can’t check this indicator, add a little starch to it - so the products will be as crumbly as possible.
9. It is not necessary to knead the dough for a long time, otherwise it will lose its plasticity.
10. The finished baking base should stand in the refrigerator for half an hour, then when baking, the cookies will not crack.

Classic shortcrust pastry recipe

The traditional sand base is prepared from a minimal set of products and without chicken eggs. Using it, you can make not only cookies, but also cakes, pies, cake cakes, etc. If desired, butter is replaced with high-quality margarine. The classic shortbread dough is combined with any fillings - cottage cheese, berry, cream. The technology for preparing the basis for baking is described in detail below and with a photo.

Ingredients:

• soft butter - 200 g;
• flour of 1 grade - 3 tbsp .;
• salt - ¼ tsp;
• sugar - 1 tbsp .;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l

Cooking method:

1. Put softened butter in a glass bowl, mash thoroughly with a fork.
2. Add sugar to the butter, grind the ingredients, removing large lumps.
3. Pour flour, salt. Mash the products with your hands until a small crumb is formed.
4. Next, you need to slowly add sour cream, stirring the mass. When the base for cookies acquires uniformity and elasticity, cover it with a film, put in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
5. After you can begin to sculpt curly cookies.

Tender on sour cream

The recipe for homemade shortcrust pastry for cookies may vary, but, according to experienced chefs, it is easier and faster to prepare it from sour cream, while it is better to take a fatter product. The main advantages of baking from a sand base are the delicate taste, softness and ease of preparation. Nevertheless, cookies will turn out successful only if you choose high-quality products for it. How to cook shortcrust pastry with sour cream?

Ingredients:

• egg;
• margarine - 70 g;
• flour - 150 g;
• baking powder - ½ tsp;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
• fat sour cream - 50 g;
• vanillin - 1 pack

Cooking method:

1. Beat sugar, margarine, salt until fluffy.
2. An egg should be added to this, then work with the mixer for another 30 seconds.
3. Add baking powder to flour, start pouring the dry mixture into the prepared liquid base.
4. When the mass becomes homogeneous, cover the bowl with foil, send to the refrigerator.
5. After at least half an hour, you can roll out the dough and cut out the cookies using special molds or skip the mass through a meat grinder.

On margarine

Making such cookies is very simple: you do not need to freeze or heat anything first. Shortcrust pastry with margarine will turn out tasty, tender and crumbly, provided that all the components used are of high quality, so you should not save on products. Serve the dish with homemade jam or jam and hot tea. How to make shortbread dough for homemade cookies?

Ingredients:

• soda - ½ tsp;
• sugar - ½ tbsp .;
• flour - 2 tbsp .;
• egg;
• margarine - 120 g.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the egg with granulated sugar. Whisk the mixture with a whisk.
2. Remove the margarine from the refrigerator, cut into small pieces with a knife.
3. Combine the components by mashing them thoroughly with a fork.
4. Add soda and flour to the dough. With hands pre-oiled with vegetable oil, knead the base. Form a ball that should stand in the cold for half an hour.
5. After rolling the layer no more than 1 cm thick, use the cookie cutters to cut out cookies from it, place the products on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Without butter and margarine

Loose shortcrust pastry for cookies is the most common and beloved in the whole world, this explains the variety of recipes for its preparation in cooking. Despite the universal love for such pastries, children can be given in very limited quantities, since cookies contain a large amount of fat. Below is a diet recipe that even small children can eat. How to make shortcrust pastry without butter and margarine?

Ingredients:

• sour cream 20% - 100 ml;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• slaked soda - ½ tsp;
• sugar - 1 tbsp .;
• flour - 3 tbsp .;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l

Cooking method:

1. First you need to combine salt, flour, vegetable oil.
2. Beat eggs with sugar, then add slaked soda and sour cream.
3. All ingredients are combined and flour is slowly added, kneading the dough until elastic.
4. Next, the table should be sprinkled with flour, rolled out a layer on the prepared surface, cut out shaped cookies from it with molds.
5. Products are laid out on an oiled baking sheet, sent to bake at 180 degrees. After 10 minutes, the cookies are served with tea, previously sprinkled with powdered sugar (this is not necessary).

A simple recipe for shortcrust pastry

Such a baking base is very easy to prepare: it does not require the addition of baking powder and other components to give the products a loose structure, tenderness, and friability. Even without special additives, a simple shortbread dough for cookies turns out to be airy, tasty, melting in your mouth. You can use it, in addition, for baking open pies, cake cakes, tartlets and other products. Below is described in detail and with a photo how to bake shortbread cookies.

Ingredients:

• flour - 2 tbsp .;
• vinegar - 1 tbsp. l .;
• sugar of the 1st grade - 2 tbsp. l .;
• butter - 250 g;
• soda - 2/3 tsp

Cooking method:

1. Add pieces of butter to flour, start kneading mass. This can be done both in a large bowl and on the table.
2. When you see sand crumbs, add soda, slaked with vinegar, sugar to it. Add a little more flour if necessary.
3. The finished base should stick together in one lump, which should be sent to the cold for 20 minutes.
4. After rolling out a 1 cm thick layer, use a glass or special molds to cut out cookies from it, transfer them to a baking sheet and bake until a golden hue appears.

With kefir

Many people like this type of baking base due to its versatility: it is combined with almost any toppings and additives. Kefir shortbread dough for cookies comes out very plastic, so it’s very easy to sculpt products from it. The finished dish is crispy, very tasty, tender, crumbly. Do not be afraid to add nuts, candied fruits or your favorite spices to your pastries. Below is a detailed recipe with a photo of a sand base on kefir.

Ingredients:

• egg;
• margarine - 100 g;
• flour - 0.7 kg;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• kefir - 300 ml.

Cooking method:

1. First, melt the margarine over low heat. Add kefir, soda, egg to the liquid.
2. Mix all products thoroughly (it is better to use a mixer).
3. Add flour to the mixture, kneading a plastic, thick base. At the same time, she should stop sticking to her hands.
4. Place the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour. After forming the cookies, bake it at 180 degrees.

On mayonnaise

According to the classic recipe, shortcrust pastry on mayonnaise does not involve the addition of any spices. However, to get a spicy taste, baked goods can be seasoned with a small amount of turmeric, paprika, vanilla, cinnamon or other spices. Based on the preferences of your household, you can add nuts, raisins, candied fruits, sesame and other products to the dish. How to cook a delicious shortbread dough for cookies?

Ingredients:

• egg;
• lemon juice - ½ tsp;
• medium fat mayonnaise - 200 ml;
• flour of 1 grade - 3 tbsp .;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• vanillin;
• butter - 0.2 kg;
• sugar - 0.2 kg.

Cooking method:

1. Combine sugar, egg, mayonnaise. Stir the food until perfectly homogeneous.
2. Add soda, vanillin, slaked with lemon juice to the mixture.
3. Start adding flour in small portions, constantly mixing the baking base.
4. Add sliced \u200b\u200bsoftened butter.
5. The resulting mass should not be too steep, tight.
6. Form small balls from it, put on an oiled baking sheet. Press each circle with a fork to decorate the product with a pattern.
7. Place the pan in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees. Ready cookies can be sprinkled with sweet powder or cocoa powder.

Butter shortcrust pastry

If desired, chopped lemon zest, pieces of chocolate, nuts, vanillin, cocoa can be added to the dish. Experienced chefs advise separately combining dry and liquid ingredients to make the cookies crumbly. At the same time, it is better to add a little starch to the flour, then the products will turn out crispy and tender. Ready cookies can be decorated with butter cream. How should I make a sandy yeast dough sweet?

Ingredients:

• cold water - 4 tbsp. l .;
• flour of the 1st grade - 150 g;
• sugar - 4 tbsp. l .;
• salt;
• sweet butter - 75 g;
• yolk.

Cooking method:

1. Combine the oil with salt, grind the products.
2. Whisk the yolk with sugar, add water.
3. Start pouring flour to the egg mixture, mixing the ingredients with a knife with the round end of the blade.
4. Mix the flour mass with the butter. Kneading thoroughly, roll out the base on a countertop, sprinkled with flour.
5. Form cookies of any shape, size. After that, you can send them to bake for 10-15 minutes at 220 degrees.

Cottage Cheese

An excellent dessert for tea is home-made cottage cheese and shortbread cookies. Such a treat is equally popular with adults and kids. The recipe proposed below is good in that, if desired, granulated sugar can not be used at all. Honey will serve as its replacement, and in this case, cookies will become more useful. How to cook cottage cheese and sand dough?

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese - 250 g;
• baking powder - 15 g;
• butter - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - 50 g;
• flour - 0.5 kg;
• lemon zest - 1 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. Combine cottage cheese with softened butter, lemon zest.
2. Mix flour with baking powder, salt, and then sift.
3. Add the flour mass to the curd gradually, kneading the dough without lumps.
4. Divide the resulting cookie base into 3 equal parts.
5. Roll out the layers on the table one at a time, cutting out shaped products from them and folding them onto the prepared baking sheet.
6. Bake cookies for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

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